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Jack Nicholson: Hidden Drugs, Road Rage, and a Shocking Crime
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In some of Hollywood’s best-loved movies, Jack Nicholson played jokers, sailors, inmates – even the Devil himself. But he never played by the rules. He allegedly mooned a crowd of thousands at a basketball game. His bedroom kinks were laid bare in the papers. He fought the MPAA and the LAPD. And in 1994, he attempted to establish his own set of rules when he attacked an idling Mercedes-Benz with a two-iron.
Sources
Nicholson: A Biography, by Marc Eliot
Easy Riders and Raging Bulls, by Peter Biskind
Jack Nicholson: The Rolling Stone Interview (Rolling Stone)
Jack Nicholson: Knocking Round the Nest (Rolling Stone)
Acting: The Method and Mystique of Jack Nicholson (NY Times)
The Untold Truth of Jack Nicholson (Looper)
Jack Nicholson: A Singular Guy (Rolling Stone)
Here’s Johnny! Rare photos of Jack Nicholson’s Los Angeles house once dubbed ‘the wildest house in Hollywood’ (Daily Mail)
The Big Fabulous (Vanity Fair)
A look at Jack Nicholson’s wild, drug and sex-fueled A-list parties (Far Out)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Zeth Lundy.
Copy edited by Pat Healy.
Scored and mixed by Matt Tahaney.
Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak